1st Edition
Byzantium and the Emergence of Muslim-Turkish Anatolia, ca. 1040-1130
List of Maps
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Conquests, Modern Nations, and Lost Fatherlands
Sources, Images, Perceptions
Part I First EncounterS in Byzantium’s Eastern Marches, ca. 1040-1071
1. The Eastern Provinces, Turkish Migrations, and the Seljuk Imperial Project
2. Byzantine-Seljuk Diplomacy and the First Turkish Footholds
3. Emperor Romanos IV and Sultan Alp Arslān, 1068-1071
Part II Decay of Imperial Authority and Regionalization of Power, 1071-1096
4. Sulaymān b. Qutlumush and the First Turkish Lordships in Syria
5. Revolts and Byzantine-Turkish Coalitions in Asia Minor, 1071-1081
6. Seljuk Rule between Centralization and Disintegration, 1086-1098
7. Turkish and Byzantine-Armenian Lordships in Asia Minor
Part III The Crusades and the Crystallization of Muslim Anatolia, 1096-ca.1130
8. Seljuk Reactions to the First Crusade
9. New Contact and Conflict Zones
Conclusions
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Alexander Daniel Beihammer received his PhD from the University of Vienna and is a member of the Institut für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung. From 2001 to 2015 he taught at the University of Cyprus and is currently Associate Professor of Byzantine History at the University of Notre Dame. He has published widely on Byzantine official documents, diplomacy, and cross-cultural communication between Byzantium and the Muslim world, as well as on Byzantine-Latin contacts and mutual perception in the crusader states and the Eastern Mediterranean.
